Local Law Enforcement
Around 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, walls and postboxes were vandalized, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Officers state they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday, when a resident observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored fluid.
The fluid had been placed in the form of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then found numerous other smeared automobiles and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under laws outlawing the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests suggest the liquid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no clue as to where it came from; officials are not yet informed of any physical harm in relation with the incident," they added.
Municipal representatives announced they were trying "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the residents for tips.
An important official commented the incident made him without words and had to be resolved rapidly.
"This event hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the killing of nine individuals by a assailant targeting people of foreign heritage in February 2020.
